Cost | Free software licensed under the GNU GPL | |
| User support? | On website, eg FAQ, and by mailing lists (also in German, Spanish, French) | |
| Reviews? | Favorable | |
System | ||
| Server Requirements? | PHP 4.1.x minimum; can run in safe mode. See Web Hosts? and the Standalone Cookbook recipe. PM Wiki? runs with PHP 5? but you need to deactivate MM Cache? in php.ini (M Mcache? is a section in this file) | |
| Page storage | Flat files; no need for a database. Can handle thousands of pages. See Flat File Advantages?. | |
| Upgrades? | By simply copying new version files or export from the Subversion repository | |
| Addons? | There are nearly 400 Cookbook recipes. | |
Security | ||
| SPAM protection | By blocking words, IP addresses (option), and by limiting the quantity of non-approved URLs? (option), by encrypting the email address (addon) | |
| Passwords? | Page, group or site based, see also PasswordsAdmin? | |
| User authentication | Available as an option (AuthUser) or an addon (UserAuth). | |
Features | ||
| Features at a glance? | and a detailed list of Features? | |
| Page editing | Similar to others wikis. Has a button bar (PmWiki 2.0.beta16+) and Preview capability. Handles simultaneous edits?. Optional save-as-draft feature. Addon for spell checking | |
| Page history | History pages include Restore links. Configurable number of days of history. | |
| Free links and WikiWords? | WikiWord? links are an option in version 2.1. In previous releases they were enabled by default. | |
| Intersites links? (InterMap) | Configurable? by the administrator or defined in the Site.InterMap? page. | |
| Groups? and hierarchy | One level only?, handles menus and styling by groups, see Wiki architecture? | |
| Categories? | Organise and find related pages with special Category markup. | |
| Navigation trails? | Allow wiki authors to create "trails" through sequences of pages in the wiki. | |
| Search tools | Search the entire site or the current group. Administrator may exclude pages from appearing in search results. Pre-defined searches are also available. | |
| Email-notification? of revised pages | Option, by admin, site based | |
| Web Feeds | Optional RSS, Atom, and Dublin Core syndication feeds as well as feed links to enable autodiscovery of the feeds | |
| Podcasting | Web feed enclosures are supported. | |
| International versions? | See Other languages. Handles accented characters and UTF-8. | |
| Page renaming | addon | |
| Site Map | Available via the pagelists? directive. | |
| Backlinks | Available since version 2.0.beta33 | |
Layout | ||
| Skins | By admin, can be table or CSS based, addon for switching by users and interactive configuration | |
| Layout modifications? | By admin? and by user, see group headers? | |
| Printable layout | Suppress menu, make link list and miscellaneous reformatting | |
| Style? and custom markup? | ||
| Tables | Tables and Table Directives | |
| Table Edit | Addon - table editor | |
| Page table of contents | Addon - see also numbered headers | |
| Inclusion? in page | Of others page (part or complete) | |
| Anchors? | In same or other page | |
| User uploaded attachments | Option to set? | |
| Images resizing and galleries | By addons, see also the category images | |
| Forms | Forms may be embedded in wiki pages. | |
| In browser drawing edit | By addon, need java enabled on browser. | |
| User preferences | Option. See also the SkinChange add-on. | |
HTML details | ||
| Handles HTML meta informations | Keywords? (site, group or page based), automatic noindex, nofollow for utility pages | |
| HTML compatibility | XHTML 1.0 transitional, may differ for miscellaneous skins | |
| allow embedding of html in wiki pages | Cookbook:enable HTML | |
| Browser caching? | Option | |
| Nice URLs? | See also $EnablePathInfo in Layout Variables?
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| Hide e-mail addresses? | Addon | |
Miscellaneous addons | ||
| Calendar | Each date becomes a wiki page. There are two possible implementations: WikiCalendar and PmCalendar | |
| Latex in Wiki? | ||
| Publish trails | ||
| Forum | There are 2 addons: Forum and SimpleForum | |
| Guestbook | ||
| For the full list ... | See the Cookbook recipes. | |
Administration details | ||
| Wiki farms? | To have multiple wikis with a single installation of the wiki engine | |
| Missing and orphan pages search? | Option - You can also list orphan and missing attachments (addon) | |
| Handling of features requests and bug reports | ||
Lacking (yet) | ||
| allow php scripts inside wiki | like gunther.sf.net does - nah, too much of a security issue. A recipe for that is easy to implement... but who would be crazy enough to do it? ;) | |
| Publish as static pages | Available as Cookbook recipe Cookbook.StaticPages? | |
| E-mail notification by page | Easy: just enable the MailPosts? in the local/config of the page(s) you want to monitor. | |
Elements which are not listed as features and are a strength of Pm Wiki :
Add a new feature you would like to see in Pm Wiki as a new PITS? entry marked Feature Request, or use one of the mailing lists? to brainstorm new features.
Enjoy!